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Puppet (Paperback)
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Puppet (Paperback)
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Loot Price R554
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The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play
of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate
with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive,
inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice.
In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination
of these unsettling objects - objects that are also actors and
images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether
in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its
talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the
idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the
anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali,
and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where
puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean
tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of
the myriad faces of the puppet in literature - Collodi's cruel,
wooden Pinocchio, puppet-like characters in Kafka and Dickens,
Rilke's puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth's
Mickey Sabbath - as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell
and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature,
seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our
experience of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about
reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, "Puppet" evokes
the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life
and art.
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